Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives. Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally. Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if y…

Too much high-content information, and I get the existential willies. I keep sputtering out at intersections where life choices must be made and I either know …

To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place. To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things. To d…

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel it or not, wh…

I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, 'Aren't you tired of always playi…

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.